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an acre and an half will feed a cow through 

 the fummer ; and an acre carry four fheep : 

 Very few of them manure their grafs. Their 

 breed of cattle is the long horned, which 

 they account much the belt. Their beafts 

 they fatten to about forty (tone. 



The product of a cow they reckon at 50 s. 

 or 3 /. that a middling one will give from 

 two to four gallons of milk a day, and make 

 from four to icvQn pounds of butter a week. 

 They have no notion of keeping hogs in 

 confequence of cows ; a dairy of twenty not 

 maintaining above one or two. The winter 

 food of their cows is ftraw or hay, a ton and 

 an half of which is the quantity they com- 

 monly fuppofe a cow to eat in the winter; 

 but if clover hay is ufed, one ton is enough. 

 The fummer joift is 25 s. and that of winter 

 30 j. and 35 s. They reckon ten cows the 

 bulinefs of a dairy maid. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from twenty to 

 an hundred and twenty, and the profit they 

 reckon at 6s. ahead; lamb 51. and wool ij-. 

 They keep them the year round on the com- 

 mons : The average weight of fleeces \ib. 



In the management of their arable lands 

 they reckon fix horfes neceffary for one hun- 

 dred acres of arable ; they ufe two in a plough, 

 and do an acre a day. The annual expence 

 of keeping horfes they reckon at 5/. 10s. or 

 6/. The joift in fummer 40J. in winter $os. 

 They break up their ftubbles for a fallow in 



Vol. III. H February, 



